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The eminent US fantasy magazine Weird Tales‘s decision to publish an extract from a young adult novel featuring a minority white race called the Pearls that is dominated by the black race of the Coals, which has been widely described as...

In a campaign speech that appeared to be a throwback to the 2008 presidential election, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said on Tuesday that he was “happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion,” and even gave a...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it approves of proposed changes to Virginia’s election laws, showing that the Obama administration does not uniformly oppose Republican-sponsored voter identification requirements so long as...

A majority of New Yorkers believe the city’s police department is biased against blacks and Hispanics and in favor of whites, according to a poll Tuesday. The New York Times poll found that 59 percent see the NYPD favoring whites, while...

An official from Missouri’s Republican Party on Monday defended Senate candidate Todd Akin after he suggested abortions should not be allowed in any case because victims of “legitimate” rape victims could not get pregnant. GOP...

The New York City Police Department’s heavily-criticized spying on Muslim residents did not produce any leads or help any investigations of terrorist activities, in a report a civil rights group calls a “vindication” of the...

Christian conservative actor and activist Kirk Cameron on Tuesday offered praise for a Republican Senate candidate who recently said that women were less likely to get pregnant through “legitimate” rape. During an interview on CNN,...

Hank Williams Jr has become the second musician in as many weeks to accuse Barack Obama of plotting to destroy the United States. Just days after Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine claimed Obama had “staged” this month’s shooting...

The Republican Party is set to adopt an official platform that calls for “a human life amendment” to the Constitution that would not allow abortion even in cases of rape. As Republicans were calling for Todd Akin to quit his senate...

US President Barack Obama warned Syria of “enormous consequences” if it resorts to chemical weapons, as regime forces launched a wave of air and ground attacks and a Japanese reporter was killed in Aleppo. Regime fighter jets and...

Prop. 37: Will California be first state to label genetically modified food? (via The Christian Science Monitor) Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative – with big implications for the country – is brewing here in California....

Researchers trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the 1937 disappearance of US aviator Amelia Earhart in the Pacific have said they spotted debris under water that may have come from her plane. High-definition video taken by a Project...

CHICAGO — Women seeking an abortion are seven times more likely to report physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their partners than the US national average for domestic violence, a study published Monday found. The study comes as a Republican...

The Republican party leadership has withdrawn financial and political support from a US congressman who is refusing to resign from a Senate race in Missouri after claiming that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy. As pressure...

WASHINGTON — The United States said Monday that oil companies should not bypass Iraq’s central government after authorities in the autonomous Kurdish north signed dozens of deals with foreign energy firms. “With regard to our own...